The 6t o Januar is the 6t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 359 days ti come (360 in lowp years).
Events 1066: Harold Godwinson on a siller coin 1912 : Banner o New Mexico
Births Carl Sandburg Rowan Atkinson 1367 - King Richard II o Ingland (d. 1400)
1412 - Joan o Arc , French martyr an saunt (d. 1431)
1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman an airchaeologist (d. 1890 )
1832 - Gustave Doré, French airtist, prentmakker, illustrator an sculptor (d. 1883)
1838 - Max Bruch, German componer (d. 1920 )
1850 - Eduard Bernstein, German politeecian an poleetical theorist (d. 1932 )
1861 - Victor Horta, Belgian airchitect (d. 1947 )
1872 - Alexander Scriabin, Roushie componer an pianist (d. 1915 )
1878 - Carl Sandburg , American poet (d. 1967)
1882 - Alexander Gray, Scots poet (d. 1968 )
1883 - Kahlil Gibran , Lebanese airtist, poet an writer (d. 1931 )
1913 - Loretta Young , American actress (d. 2000 )
1924 - Kim Dae-jung , Preses o Sooth Korea , Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2009 )
1946 - Syd Barrett, Inglis muisicker (d. 2006 )
1953 - Malcolm Young, Scots-Australie muisicker (AC/DC) (d. 2017)
1954 - Anthony Minghella, Inglis film director (d. 2008 )
1955 - Rowan Atkinson , Inglis actor, comedian an writer
1956 - Justin Welby, 105t Airchbishop o Canterbury
1960 - Nigella Lawson, Inglis chef
1968 - John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter an producer
1972 - Nek , Italian sangster
1982 - Eddie Redmayne , Inglis actor
1984 - Eric Trump, son o Donald Trump
1985 - Callum McCaig , Scots politeecian
1989 - Nicky Romero (Nick Rotteveel), Dutch DJ an record producer
Daiths 1693 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
1852 - Louis Braille, French inventor o Braille (b. 1809)
1884 - Gregor Mendel , Austrick scientist (b. 1822)
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt , 26t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1858)
1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scots physeecian an writer (b. 1896 )
1990 - Ian Charleson , Scots actor (b. 1949 )
1990 - Pavel Cherenkov , Soviet-Roushie pheesicist (b. 1904 )
1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, American sangster an trumpeter (b. 1917 )
1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Roushie dancer an choreographer (b. 1938 )
2017 - Om Puri, Indie actor (b. 1950)
Halidays The Three Keengs - commemoratit on Uphalyday
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